Charitable Trusts: Denial of Exemption Now Mandatory !

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Finance Bill 2012-13 has tightened the law regarding grant of exemption to charitable trusts or society by amending section 10(23C) , section 13 and 143 retrospectively so as to make the denial of exemption mandatory in case definition of Charitable Purpose is not fulfilled in a year  . Sections 11 and 12 of the Act [...]

Can you get deduction of interest & principal on loan borrowed for buying land ?

In my earlier posting , confusion regarding claim of interests on loan borrowed for buying land was explained. One can read Is Ineterest on Loan for Buying Plot /Land Allowed Dedcution ? . Similar question has been asked by Vijay Kumar Babu residing in Visakhapatnam who asks " I have decided to buy a plot of land through home loan from PNB or HDFC Home Loan. its costs Rs.5 Lakhs. For your information at present I'm residing in my own residence.Now my query are

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Suo moto transfer of case by one A.O to another A.O is illegal -says Kolkata High Court

Scrutiny of the case is done by officer of the rank of Income Tax Officer (ITO ) and Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax (ACIT) ot Deputy Commissioner of Income tax. The jurisdiction has been distributed among these ranks as per return income. As per CBDT instruction , generally the ITOs have jursidiction over cases where return income is below Rs 10 lakhs whereas the jurisdcition of ACIT/DCIT are on all kinds of cases without any limit if return income.

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Check your case out of five lakhs of refund returns processed by CPC.

It is already posted earlier -How to check income tax refund status online ? . It is reported that Central Processing Unit , presently functioning from Bangluru , has proceesed five lakhs of refund cases out of total 26 lakhs of e-return filed for Assessment year 2009-10 .

Whether gratuity received on resignation or termination eligible for exemption

As per Board's letter F. No. 194/6/73-IT(A 1) Dated 19.06.73 exemption in respect of gratuity is permissible even in cases of termination of employment due to resignation. The taxable portion of gratuity will qualify for relief u/s 89(1).

The gratuity payment is a certainty in every case today

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